Safety secret pocket for garments.



I. MENSCH. SAFETY SECRET POCKET FOR GARMENTS.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 7,1907.

Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

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THE NORRIS PETERS co., wAsH/Ncron. u. c

UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

ISIDORMENSCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LEON MANN COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SAFETY SECRET POCKET FOR GARMENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISIDOR MENsoH, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Secret Pockets for Garments, of which the following is a specification. be My invention relates to pockets for garments, and particularly to safety concealed or secret pockets adapted to be located on the outside of coats and other garments. Its objects are, among others, to provide a pocket of this character of simple, strong and durable construction, which may be applied to garments worn by members of both sexes and which will be effectively concealed.

The invention consists of the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In the said drawings, Figure 1, is an outside view of a detachable portion of a garment provided with a pocket embodying the invention. Fig. 2, is a vertical section of the same taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

A visible pocket K, is formed by the walls H and L and has its opening at N, immediatel above the flap A, while the concealed poo et J is formed by the walls G and H and as its top opening beneath the flap A and at the upper edge of the part D. The lower edges and sides of the walls G, H and L are stitched together and the upper portion of each wall is secured to the cloth of which the garment is made. Thus the wall G is secured in the turned over portion E of the part D, the wall H is secured to the back of the turned down portion I of the flap A and the wall L is stitched to the back of the extension F of the portion M, and preferably extends up a short distance over the back of the part M where it is also secured. The en trance to the pocket K is between the up er ends ofH and F, and the entrance to the poo ret J is between the upper folded edge of E and I.

The flap A is of ordinary form and is secured at its lower point by means of the button-hole B and button C. It will be understood, however, that this flap may be of any desired form, and that it may be constructed so as not to have the appearance of a flap. This will be of particular advantage in ladies garments. It will be observed that the portion of the garment beneath the flap is composed of four thicknesses of the material of which the garment is made as well as the upper portions of the three pocket walls. This arran ement provides a body of considerable thickness into which the flap A may be pressed as shown in the drawings, so that it will have the appearance of being a part of the material D and will not suggest the presence of a pocket beneath 1t. It also permits the folded over part E to be pressed into the part I so that the opening of the secret pocket will not be visible if the flap A is raised.

This pocket is not only a secret pocket but a safety pocket. It will be observed that the upper ocket K can be conveniently used for a hand rerchief or to receive other articles fre uently inserted and removed, while the po ket J, may be conveniently used as a receptacle for money, tickets, valuables or other articles not frequently used, which it is desired to carefully preserve. Being in a separate pocket these articles will not be liable to be drawn out with the handkerchief or other articles of small value. The arrangement of the two pockets and the flap is also important to the matter of safety as well as secrecy for the reason that it is im ossible for a handkerchief for instance to e thrust into the secret pocket by mistake, or for valuables to be placed in the non-secret pocket by mistake, unless the wearer is guilty of extreme carelessness.

\Nhat I claim is The combination with the cloth forming the body of the garment slitted, the upper part above the slit havin an extension inside of the lower edge of the slit, a folded flap embracing the lower edge of the slit, one fold on the outside and the other on the inside thereof, the inner fold resting against but free from said extension, leaving an opening between the said inner fold of the flap and the extension and one between the inner fold and the lower edge of the slit, a pocket wall secured at its upper edge to the inside of the extension of the upper wall of the slit, another pocket Wall secured at its upper edge upon 1907, at the city of New York, in the county the (iinside of the inner fold o the flap, and a and State of New York. thir Wall secured at its upper ed 'e to the lower edge of the slit, the three od ket Walls ISIDOR 1v IENSOH' 5 having their side and bottom e ges secured together, all substantially as described.

Wltness my hand this 19th day of August,

Witnesses SAMUEL RING,

JOSEPH IMMERMAN. a L y 

